Life for cigarette smokers in the City has been getting more difficult recently. In May, the Board of Supervisors voted to add a 33 cent tax to each pack of cigarettes sold in San Francisco to clean up cigarette butts left on the street.

“Cigarette butts contain benzene and toxic heavy metals that can poison the marine environment and leach into groundwater,” Mayor Gavin Newsom said in May. “All litter creates unnecessary costs for the city and its taxpayers. Cigarette butts are a big part of the problem.”